We can all agree that some fresh product is desperately overdue out of Sunnyvale, so the eternal optimists in us want to believe that the departure of the Pre Plus from Verizon’s and AT&T’s warehouses right now means that we can expect new goodies soon. Of course, it’s entirely possible that the two carriers just happened to run out of phones at the same time and that fresh batches are on their way, so it’s too early to say these phones are out for the count; then again, when you consider that Sprint somehow still sells the Centro , anything’s possible. . . . → Read More: Pre Plus out of stock online at Verizon and AT&T — so what does it mean?
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If the rumors of an August 18th Android 2.2 update prove true, we’d say Verizon Wireless couldn’t have picked a better time to get HTC’s Droid Incredible back in stock. ‘Course, we suspect you’ll think differently if you’ve been waiting for your backorder to clear over the past few weeks, but we digress. As of this moment in time, the handset — which has been tough to get thanks to AMOLED shortages — is in stock and shipping as early as today, with an unchanged $199.99-on-contract price tag. . . . → Read More: HTC Droid Incredible finally returns to stock, not a moment too soon This actually happened a few days ago, but since we admittedly weren’t on the lookout for hot filings from Chinese manufacturer ZTE, we totally missed it until we circled back for our FCC Fridays roundup this week. . . . → Read More: Verizon’s Fivespot gets FCC approval by way of ZTE We’ve already heard how Verizon expects to hit the ground running on LTE, starting this November with a launch in 30 markets — New York, LA, Philadelphia, and so forth. Now it looks like you can add San Francisco to that aggressive list, if Boy Genius Report’s leak proves true. . . . → Read More: San Francisco in Verizon’s initial 30-market LTE rollout? It still doesn’t add mobile hotspot or tethering functionality , but it looks like users of the original Droid will soon be getting a second Android 2.2 (a.k.a Froyo ) update. That’s been confirmed by Verizon itself, which says that the second update will be following the just-released one in the “coming weeks,” and that it will let users download Flash 10.1 from the Android Market once it’s available . . . → Read More: Verizon confirms original Droid will be getting second Froyo update Even by mid-2010 standards, Verizon’s original Droid still looks and feels thoroughly modern — after all, it set a pretty high benchmark for the upper end of Android’s product portfolio when it launched late last year, and Motorola has managed to keep it updated through two major revisions of the platform along the way (in fact, it’s still just one of a very few devices running Froyo commercially at this point). That said, it’s got a handful of minor design flaws, none of which are really showstoppers in and of themselves but add up to make the phone a little less enjoyable to use than it could’ve been. That’s where the Droid 2 comes in: a phone that’s less of an all-new, blockbuster product like the Droid X or EVO 4G and more of a genuine “version 2.0″ type of effort — hence the name, we suppose — targeting some specific pain points we all experienced with the first-generation device . . . → Read More: Droid 2 review You know the drill : if you’re rolling custom firmwares for your Android-powered devices, you’ve got to release the GPL portions of those binaries for all of our prying eyes to see. It’s a drill HTC is well-acquainted with at this point, and once again, they’ve come swooping in with a couple that should pique the particular interest of the North American hacking community: kernel source for the Android 2.2 releases for Verizon’s Droid Incredible and Sprint’s EVO 4G . Of course, finding a frickin’ Droid Incredible is another matter altogether… . . . → Read More: Froyo code for HTC EVO 4G, Droid Incredible goes open source It’s been less than a full day since Verizon’s Droid 2 hit shelves (or two, if you count Sam’s Club ) but the fine folks at iFixit have already managed to make their phone explode into… 24 pieces, if we’re counting right. Amazingly enough, the internal construction is almost exactly the same despite Motorola’s near-doubling of the horsepower (and addition of 802.11n) inside . . . → Read More: Motorola Droid 2 ripped to shreds, where’s an astromech when you need one? If you compare this shot of the bespoke R2-D2 Droid 2 to the background of Verizon’s teaser site (inset), you can see this is almost certainly the genuine article — and we knew that Verizon intended to intro this thing at the Star Wars-themed Celebration V conference kicking off today, so this is all making a lot of sense. We admit, we were kind of hoping for a graphic that was a little more.. . . . → Read More: Droid 2 R2-D2 edition spied in the wild, ready to repair your X-wing Every once in a while, carriers need to re-up the very bottom of their product lineups — the part of the range where features like VGA cameras and tiny displays still reign supreme. . . . → Read More: Verizon’s Samsung Gusto shows a surprising lack of gusto for $20 |
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